{"product_id":"14459-porter-cole-1891-1964-typed-letter-signed-about-noel-coward","title":"Porter, Cole. (1891–1964) Typed Letter Signed about Noel Coward","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eA brief typed letter signed from the great composer and lyricist to Albert \"Doc\" Sirmay, head of the music publisher Chappell and a close collaborator with Porter, thanking him for sending clippings and mentioning that he has sent a telegram to Noel Coward \"for his opening\" (of the 1961 musical \u003ci\u003eSail Away.\u003c\/i\u003e) Dated September 30, 1961. 1 p. A few small stains, else fine. \u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eComposer, arranger and editor Albert \"Doc\" Sirmay was the music director of the leading music publishing firm Chappell. According to Mark Eden Horowitz, Sirmay can be considered a collaborator with Porter: he \"worked closely with [Chappell's] roster of composer, including Kern, Gershwin, and especially Porter. Many of the published piano-vocal scores of standards of the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s owe their elegance, clarity, and playability to Sirmay. He could convert a lead sheet to a richly accompanied song; he could wed melodies to accompaniment figures to make the totality of a song playable on the piano; he was a master of chord voicings. Many of the Porter music manuscripts in both the Library and Yale collections are in Sirmay's clear and flowing hand.\" (\"Cole Porter's Papers,\" in \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eA Cole Porter Companion\u003c\/i\u003e, p. 310.)\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093551403167,"sku":"14459","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Cole_Porter_TLS_14459193.jpg?v=1722188784","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/14459-porter-cole-1891-1964-typed-letter-signed-about-noel-coward","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}